Darin and Brooke Aldridge have been married for eight years and proudly announce the birth of their new baby. It’s called Faster and Farther (Mountain Home Music Company) and if there’s any justice from th...

Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder/The Appel Room/February 25, 2017
Ricky Skaggs was born in Cordell, Kentucky, and was five years old when his father gave him a mandolin. At age six, he played mandolin...

The Gray Vines are a New Jersey-based duo who have been described as “embracing the strange” and are putting their post-modern spin on '90s rock 'n' roll.
Jake Hoffman and Jill Deegan met in a Philly all...

NIGHTS OUT
Disintegration
Jeff Ward, leading impresario in NYC’s dark dance club scene, introduced another specialty night on Friday, Feb. 10, at Windfall, holding what he termed "A Tribute to The Cur...

Do What Your Heart Says is not only good advice but it’s also the name of the new Scott Ramminger CD (Ann Arbor Lane Music) where the talented singer/songwriter/saxophonist/co-producer presents 14 of his ki...

John Mark McMillan/Le Poisson Rouge/February 20, 2017
John Mark McMillan taught himself to play guitar as a teenager, sitting on the loading docks behind his father’s storefront church in Pineville, Nort...

An Agitated Psalm To The Curse Of Déjà Vu
Somewhere in my sordid past I must have made a spate of grievous errors; terrible miscalculations in both vocation and idle interests. It is the only way to explain ...

The Susan Rumors was conceived in the back room at the Dragonfly Music & Coffee Cafe in Somerville, NJ by Joe Furnari, Mark Nuzzi and Bruce Tunkel.
Back in the 1980s, Bruce was a member of The Red Ho...

What happens when four progressive Euro cats convene at a recording studio in Spain with nothing prepared beforehand? With no composed music, no rehearsals, overdubs expressly forbidden, no genre limitation...